Amazon suffered a major outage at their east coast 1 region today. This is their largest, and oldest region and has had it fair share of problems due to these two facts. I am hearing many theories at the what happened and Amazon has yet to release their analysis of the root cause. Amazon has been hard at work recovering the region and many of their services are back online. though some sporadic issues continue.. They have not released an ETR yet and I will update this post when they do.
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